(a) Per 1,000 live births.(b) Medium variant projection.(c) Healthy life expectancy at birth summarises the expected number of years to be lived in what might be termed the equivalent years of 'full health'.

Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, Secretariat World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Population Prospects: The 2001 Revision <http://esa.un.org/unpp>, accessed 7 April 2003; The World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2003: Shaping the Future <http://www.who.int/whr/2003/en/Annex4-en.pdf/>, accessed 7 March 2004.

HEALTH SERVICES AND EXPENDITURE

Reference year

Health expenditure
as % of GDP

Health expenditure
per capita at PPP(a)

Reference year

Doctors per 1,000population

Referenceyear

Acute hospital beds
per 1,000 population

%

no.

no.

Country

$US '000

Australia

2001

9.2

2.5

2001

2.5

2000

3.8

Canada

2001

9.5

2.8

2001

2.1

2000

3.2

China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)

2001

5.5

0.2

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

France

2001

9.6

2.6

2001

3.3

2000

4.2

Greece

2001

9.4

1.5

2001

4.4

2000

4.0

Hong Kong (SAR of China)

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Indonesia

2001

2.4

0.1

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Italy

2001

8.4

2.2

2001

4.3

2001

4.3

Japan

2001

8.0

2.1

2000

1.9

. .

n.a.

Korea (Republic of)

2001

6.0

0.9

2000

1.3

2000

5.2

Malaysia

2001

3.8

0.3

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

New Zealand

2001

8.3

1.7

2000

2.2

1991

7.0

Papua New Guinea

2001

4.4

0.1

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Singapore

2001

3.9

1.0

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Sweden

2001

8.7

2.3

2001

3.0

2000

2.4

United Kingdom

2001

7.6

2.0

2001

2.0

2001

3.9

United States of America

2001

13.9

4.9

1999

r2.7

2001

2.9

Viet Nam

2001

5.1

0.1

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

(a) PPP (purchasing power parities) are the rates of currency conversion which eliminate the differences in price levels between countries.